Mining bot teleport hackFollow

Seen (and reported) a fair number of these myself in-game. Really discouraging while gathering yourself. :\

Try posting this on the official forums, too: there's more chance SE will see it quickly. And, um, hopefully do something about it.

Yes, I have heard of this one as well. I've also seen one with mining nodes where the bots appear to be mining them from beneath the earth like underground moles. I know that Yoshi-P stated that they have been going at RMT, but they really need to hit the bots hard. I still don't feel that GM's have a presence in Eorzea. This game is too good for them to not improve in this area....just another aspect of customer service, which is clearly the Achilles heel of SE

I am sure there are GM's, but what I am saying is that currently the weight of their presence seemingly has yet to be truly felt. If I compare the current state of FFXIV to other MMO's I have been actively playing over the past 10+ years, the FFXIV community is not yet a point where they are on their toes behaviorally. SE has directly stated that they need to seriously expand their staff to support this game, and from direct experience with customer service, this is an effort that continues. I think an more intuitive in game reporting system will go a long way.

Just think, this is only the lazy/super impatient people.

For every idiot making it stupid obvious they are botting there are 100x as many doing it so you could never tell :(

I've always seen the underground/teleporting hack for farming diremites too. He would pop up where they spawn then disappear again. Most of the time I got the jump on him and watched him kill my tags.

Alternatively, simply type "/echo <t>" while having them targeted.

I've seen a few, but the last couple gathering sessions I've had seem to be only legit players, but given how the ones I did see were all naked, I doubt endlessly mining level 30+ nodes is terribly time efficient even if automated. I can definitely see why the temptation is there, however. I'd rather the individual mining process take a bit longer than a simple click, but instead get you'd get more than 1 yield. I've started seeing nodes with +1 yield bonuses, sure, but 1 in 4 doesn't really expedite the mining process. I'm also running out of wind shards from my crafting, so the plan is either to farm those directly or sell other things to buy a restock.

There are bots farming fleece on Gilgamesh. It has me worried since I'm approaching the need for woolen thread on my Weaver. The prices for it on the AH are just stupid.

Saw 4 of them together today. Reported them, actually distracted one with my Minion which she ended up trying to mine for an hour while i did some crafting there... But never saw a GM show up or do anything about it really...

Reported the same guy 7 times in a 2 weeks period, logged in today, saw him mining + teleporting around. actually been reporting at least 6 different botters, and have been checking to see if they are still around, guess what? they STILL ARE. Can't wait for them to ruin the economy on my server /sarcasm

Hopefully it wont turn out as bad as wow, its one of the reason I left the game >_>

Edited, Sep 23rd 2013 12:48pm by abesut

A ton of things are going unreported because people think nothing will be done, which apparently is truth.

Even though gathering points are slightly randomized in location, I'm a bit befuddled on why they didn't calculate distances between nodes and set the system to flag you if you interact with them in a time too quick to realistically traverse that span via sprinting. And even if the hackers were keen on that and delaying their teleporting to that dynamic, it'd slow their resource production exponentially.

But yeah, it's still dumb this even possible or that the same characters are running around days after a report.

Some batches are more loop-friendly than others, yeah. Occasionally you'll come across one where an aggro mob camps one point where you're literally just better off running a 3-point circuit instead of 4 due to stealth slowing you down or aggro risk. As well, how the terrain is laid out might make it better to run clockwise since you could just jump off a cliff to the next point instead of walking around it if going in reverse.

Gathering in its current incarnation is pretty much bot fodder, yes. It's a bit more involved than other MMOs, yeah, but at the same time, it's just layering tedium upon tedium.

I don't know how 1.0 gathering was, but I'm thinking instead of gathering 4 mats from a single point in 10-15 seconds, the system instead encourages some kind of gameplay interaction that'll keep you at a node for a minute, but instead yield multiple times more the output. Not so much running involved. It'd introduce an element of player thought/skill to ideally improve yields. And in a perfect setting, make it harder to bot. For the sake of diversity, I wouldn't really mirror it to crafting, but I'm not sure how well some would receive a variant of Hot and Cold.